Representações sociais de crianças institucionalizadas sobre a família: caso do Centro Orfanato 1º de Maio na Província de Maputo

Abstract

This paper is aimed to analyze the causes that undergo children institutionalizing after which we analyze children‟s samples, in turn, within a family. Thus, we focus the fact that an institutionalization entrusts family standing. For the family stands for the institution which plays an important role for primary socialization of an individual. So, all along our research we have been using the most known, Alfred Schutz phenomenological theory together with Serge Moscovici social presenting. These theories made easier explanations to meaning and childhood interpretations concerning the family and its institutionalization focusing on an individual. Yet, we have undergone a qualitative research with descriptive feature based on observation and registration, and work out the collected dates. The date collecting was due to children- entrusted daily interaction, an interaction among children and those who look after children (them). Indeed, we have understood from the lifelong stories the causes which separate children from their family and, possibly, children behaviour before their own family. As result, we found that open door living, earning, and bad treatments (physical and psychological), income, and orphanity were among the several other factors that contributed for such children institutionalization. Bad treatment stressed the institutionalization, though. Concerning social representations that social actors have to the family, we definitely found that children are flourished with emotional sentiments, in spite of the causes that have taken them to institutionalization. Fewer children came to know family make up of, because the majority still visualizes a traditional family strictly composed of father, mother or siblings with standard behaviour to be followed trough